The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-24
DOCTORED DEMOCRATS.
Reflections by a Democrat who
Inherited His Politics.
THE MEETING OF TUESDAY.
A Great DIsapoint.asht--Ns fossAcs-
In Utah-rhe kroposal of the
Philosopl Asrs-Ae Old Guard.

about sunset the other evening, just rs
I often do when times are hard and
money scarce, when ran up against a
man who wanted TO know if l was
Democrat. was so much surprised at
such q question that my answer could
not have been understood, for the
querist proceeded to state that there
would be a meeting in the Federal
Court room that evening, but only
those who could give satisfactory as
surance that they would vote for
Den ocratic ticket need apply. l made
haste to make him understand that |
would be there. inherited Democracy
from my ancestors. As they had
nothing else to give me, they
gave me enough of that to
atone for DEFICIENCIES otherwise. And
| it was the right kind OF article, too; for
in the days. when they accumulated it
and to spare,
THE SCIENCE OF BLENDING THE SPECIES
had not been discovered, and the Mug
wump was, therefore unknown. They
took their Democracy like they did
their whisky-undilnted, and the
STRONGER the better without any home
opathic business in it. Would 1, under
such irresistible circumstances, attend q
Democratic meeting?
Somewhat. l might forego a prize
fight. ignore a circus, or treat Niger
minstrel troupe with contempt; but
nothing but death, a marriage or some
equally severe misfortune, could keep
me away from such gathering as
that promised. / went. 1t was a
great disappointment. 1t was q desert
of powwoW with an oasis of Democracy
only here and there. There were few
speakers who occasionally talked pure
dActrine; then there were several who
| ~re older that talked every thing else.
Both claimed to be the only true and
original, and at times they we're as
noisy and blackguard as the House of
Commons. EuJ it did not take long to
discover that neither faction was dis
posed to devote itself exclusively to the
business in hand, but to preach anti
Mormonism aud make an occasional
reference TO the subject for which the
meeting had been called.
THE YOUNG ELEMENT
were the more Democratic, the more
genteel and made the better speeches.
One of theL told about their
experience two ears ago, when
they put party ticket in
the field and when voting time came
around the old fellows had pressing
business across Jordan. This | knew
to be the case, and thought how funny
it was, when the young ones tried to
have a meeting which they could con
trol, that the ancients tlocked in strong
enough to outvOt4 them. They were
not on hand when wanted, but very
much on hand when not wanted. But
this was not the only undemocratic
thing they did. They said there was
no politics in Utah, that we didn't need
any. that we had a common enemy
before US, etc. Sure enough; men who
are Democrats always have a common
foe in front of them, and that Common
foe is any one who is not Democrat.
But
THESE PHILOSOPHERS PROPOSED
the abandonment of immutable prin.
ciples to strike hands with a mob COM
posed largely of exMormons and
Republicans in order that there might
be no defeat; this was a sage con
clusion, and the truth of tits apparent
If Democrats will only stand in With
Republicans in the presidential election
next year and present a united front
TO the Greenbackers, there can be no
question about a decided victory over
tire latter. And this Is the kind of men
who, when they came trooping into
the court room to defeat Democrats al d
Democratic principles. were styled the
"Old Guard!" Why, it was
said of the genuine Old Guard that
they died, but did not surrender:
of these others The reverse only can be
said. They surrender, but never die.
They prefer the tactics which should
have persisted with their founder, Hor-
ace Greeley, and keep on hsnkerlng af-
Ter unlawful cohabitation with strange
gods. The disposition to adulteratr
seems to have descended from Cam, and
mixing and iDtermlXing are the order OF
the day until it is difficult to determine
where Democracy leaves off and Repub-
licanism begins.
And then the manner in which parlia
mentary law was Ignored was startling
even to one of the faithful who looks
forward to nothing more than
A CROSSROADS POST OFFICE.
An eminent authority on that subject
J and Jscksonian-Joe Barker, ESQ
was 80 Disguised at the infractions that
he got up and slid out between two
speeches.
What use has the Democratic party
for the hybrid Mugwump, anyway Il
has never helped our cause. In the
election which resulted in th7 choice of
, Cleveland, because that select frater-
nifty cast 500 votes for him in New York
State and the election turned on the
resalt there, the cry Immediately went
forth tnet he owed his election to that
vote, and thereupon the political
hermaphrodites claimed all the cabi.
net positions as a reward, and c9me
very near getting them, too. in the face
of the fact that the true Democracy OF
the State ha,. seen their 500. and gone
100000 better. MCgWumpl All II
has an ugly sound, and almost disIo-
Gates the tongue. He is man who is
TOO MUCH EHAsCULATED
for Democrat and not enough for 8
RepU blican, and yet the "Old Guard